Imaging lens

ABSTRACT

There is provided a compact imaging lens configured to properly correct aberrations. The imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 having negative refractive power, a second lens L2 having negative refractive power, a third lens L3 having positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6, a seventh lens L7, and an eighth lens L8 having negative refractive power. The eighth lens L8 has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION AND RELATED ART STATEMENT

The present invention relates to an imaging lens for forming an image of an object on an image sensor such as a CCD sensor and a CMOS sensor. Particularly, the present invention relates to an imaging lens suitable for mounting in a relatively small camera to be built in portable devices such as cellular phones and portable information terminals, digital still cameras, security cameras, onboard cameras and network cameras, and so on.

To take a picture of an object with high definition or acquire more information on the object, the camera has to have a high-resolution imaging lens as well as an image sensor with high pixel count. As a method for achieving higher resolution of an imaging lens, there is a method of increasing the number of lenses that compose the imaging lens in accordance with the difficulty of correcting aberrations. However, an irresponsible increase in the number of lenses is prone to cause an increase in size of the imaging lens. In development of the imaging lens, an extension of the total track length should be prevented and the resolution has to be improved.

A lens configuration including eight lenses has, due to the large number of lenses of the imaging lens, high flexibility in design and thus allows proper correction of aberrations. As the imaging lens having the eight-lens configuration, for example, an imaging lens described in Patent Document 1 has been known.

Patent Document 1 discloses an imaging lens comprising a first lens with negative refractive power having a meniscus shape with a convex object-side surface, a second lens having a biconvex shape, a third lens having a biconcave shape, a fourth lens with positive refractive power having the meniscus shape with a convex object-side surface, a fifth lens having the biconvex shape, a sixth lens having the biconcave shape, a seventh lens with the negative refractive power having the meniscus shape with a convex image-side surface, and an eighth lens having the biconvex shape.

-   Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application Publication No.     2006-154481

According to the conventional imaging lens of Patent Document 1, although the field of view is as wide as 64° at a wide-angle end, aberrations can be relatively properly corrected. However, having a long total track length relative to the focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, it is unsuitable for mounting in a small camera to be built in a thin device such as a smartphone. In the case of the conventional imaging lens described in Patent Document 1, it is difficult to achieve more proper aberration correction while downsizing and achieving a low profile of the imaging lens.

Such a problem is not specific to the imaging lens to be mounted in smartphones. Rather, it is a common problem for imaging lenses to be mounted in such as the cellular phone, the portable information terminal, and the relatively small camera such as the digital still camera, the security camera, the onboard camera, and the network camera.

An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging lens that can achieve both downsizing of the imaging lens and proper correction of aberrations while achieving a wide field of view.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An imaging lens according to the present invention forms an image of an object on an image sensor and comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighth lens with negative refractive power. The eighth lens has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point.

In the imaging lens according to the present invention, the first lens arranged closest to the object side has negative refractive power. Therefore, a back focus can be secured while preferably achieving a wide field of view of the imaging lens. When downsizing of the imaging lens is realized while achieving the wide field of view of the imaging lens, refractive power of the first lens becomes large and an incident angle of a light flux to the first lens is often increased. In this respect, in the imaging lens according to the present invention, the second lens arranged on an image side of the first lens has negative refractive power, therefore, the negative refractive power is shared between the first lens and the second lens. The refractive power of the first lens is suppressed and thus the incident angle of the light flux to the first lens can be preferably controlled. Thus, downsizing of the imaging lens can be achieved while achieving the wide field of view of the imaging lens.

Furthermore, when an image-side surface of the eighth lens closest to the image side is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one inflection point, the back focus can be secured, and field curvature and distortion at an image periphery can be properly corrected. According to such a shape of the eighth lens, it is also possible to control an incident angle of a light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane of the image sensor within the range of chief ray angle (CRA), and to properly correct the aberrations in a paraxial region and at the peripheral area.

Regarding terms used in the present invention, “lens” refers to an optical element having refractive power. Therefore, the term “lens” used herein does not include the optical element such as a prism changing a traveling direction of a light, a flat filter, and the like. Those optical elements may be arranged in front of or behind the imaging lens, or between respective lenses, as necessary.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied:

−4.0<f12/f<−1.0  (1)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f12: a composite focal length of the first lens and the second lens.

When the conditional expression (1) is satisfied, the back focus can be secured while achieving the wide field of view and a low profile of the imaging lens. Furthermore, chromatic aberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the second lens is formed in a shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region.

Proceeding with lowering the F-number of the imaging lens, an incident angle of a lower light ray to the image plane in a higher position of an image height is prone to be large. When the second lens is formed in such a shape, an increase in the incident angle of the lower light ray to the image plane is suppressed, and the field curvature and coma aberration can be properly corrected while lowering the F-number of the imaging lens. Furthermore, total reflection light occurring at the second lens can be preferably suppressed.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (2) is satisfied:

−30.0<f2/f3<−4.0  (2)

where f2: a focal length of the second lens, and f3: a focal length of the third lens.

When the conditional expression (2) is satisfied, spherical aberration and the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected while downsizing the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied:

0.15<f3/f<0.95  (3)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f3: a focal length of the third lens.

When the conditional expression (3) is satisfied, the spherical aberration can be properly corrected while reducing the profile of the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (4) is satisfied:

0.5<R4f/R4r<2.5  (4)

where R4f: a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fourth lens, and R4r: a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fourth lens.

When the conditional expression (4) is satisfied, an increase in deviation from the uniformity of the thickness between a center of the lens and a peripheral area of the lens, so-called a thickness deviation ratio is suppressed in the fourth lens, and both downsizing and wide field of view of the imaging lens can be achieved.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the fourth lens is formed in a shape having an image-side surface being concave at a peripheral area.

When the fourth lens is formed in such a shape, an increase in the incident angle of the lower light ray to the image plane is suppressed, and occurrence of aberrations with lowering of the F-number of the imaging lens can be preferably suppressed.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the fifth lens is formed in a shape having an object-side surface being concave at a peripheral area.

When the fifth lens is formed in such a shape, an increase in an incident angle of an upper light ray to the image plane in a higher position of an image height can be suppressed and flares due to total reflection light can be reduced while securing light quantity at the peripheral area.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (5) is satisfied:

0.03<D45/f<0.30  (5)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and D45: a distance along the optical axis between the fourth lens and the fifth lens.

When the conditional expression (5) is satisfied, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected while controlling the incident angle of a light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane within the range of chief ray angle (CRA). Furthermore, the back focus can be secured.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (6) is satisfied:

−15.0<f78/f<−0.2  (6)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f78: a composite focal length of the seventh lens and the eighth lens.

When the conditional expression (6) is satisfied, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected while controlling the incident angle of the light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane within the range of chief ray angle (CRA). Furthermore, the back focus can be secured.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (7) is satisfied:

0.4<T7/T8<2.5  (7)

where T7: a thickness along the optical axis of the seventh lens, and T8: a thickness along the optical axis of the eighth lens.

When the profile of the imaging lens is reduced, a lens arranged in a position closer to the image plane tends to have a greater effective diameter. When the conditional expression (7) is satisfied, thicknesses along the optical axis of the seventh lens and the eighth lens that are likely to have relatively large effective diameters are properly maintained. It is thus possible to properly correct aberrations while reducing the profile of the imaging lens. It is also possible to secure the back focus. When the seventh lens and the eighth lens are formed from a plastic material, it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost of the lenses and also to secure the formability of the lenses by satisfying the conditional expression (7).

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (8) is satisfied:

−7.0<f8/f<−0.3  (8)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f8: a focal length of the eighth lens.

When the conditional expression (8) is satisfied, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected while securing the back focus. Furthermore, the incident angle of the light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane can be preferably controlled within the range of chief ray angle (CRA).

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (9) is satisfied:

0.1<R8r/f<0.6  (9)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and R8r: a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the eighth lens.

The image-side surface of the eighth lens is located closest to the image plane in the imaging lens.

The magnitude of the refractive power of this surface causes difference in the difficulty of correcting the astigmatism, the coma aberration, and the distortion. When the conditional expression (9) is satisfied, the astigmatism, the coma aberration and the distortion can be properly corrected while reducing the profile of the imaging lens. Satisfying the conditional expression (9) is also effective from the standpoint of securing the back focus.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the eighth lens is formed in a shape that curvature radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface are both positive, that is, a shape of a meniscus lens having the image-side surface being concave in the paraxial region.

When the eighth lens is formed in such a shape, the low profile of the imaging lens can be preferably achieved. Furthermore, the spherical aberration, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expressions (10) and (11) are satisfied for properly correcting the chromatic aberration:

10<vd1<35  (10)

35<vd2<85  (11)

where vd1: an abbe number at d-ray of the first lens, and vd2: an abbe number at d-ray of the second lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (12) is satisfied for more properly correcting the chromatic aberration:

35<vd3<85  (12)

where vd3: an abbe number at d-ray of the third lens.

Providing two lenses having negative refractive power, the third lens tends to have large refractive power. Therefore, when the third lens is formed from a material that is small in chromatic dispersion, that is, a material having a large abbe number, the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (13) is satisfied for more properly correcting the chromatic aberration of magnification:

35<vd8<85  (13)

where vd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (14) is satisfied:

1.0<TL/f<1.5  (14)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and TL: a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image plane.

When the conditional expression (14) is satisfied, downsizing of the imaging lens can be preferably achieved.

Generally, an IR cut filter, a cover glass or the like are arranged between the imaging lens and the image plane, however a distance thereof along the optical axis is converted into an air-converted distance in the present specification.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the fourth lens has positive refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (15) is satisfied:

4.0<f4/f<35.0  (15)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f4: a focal length of the fourth lens.

When the conditional expression (15) is satisfied, the coma aberration, the field curvature and the distortion can be properly corrected in well balance while reducing the profile of the imaging lens. Furthermore, the back focus can be secured.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is more preferable that the following conditional expression (15a) is satisfied:

6.0<f4/f<30.0  (15a)

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is further preferable that the following conditional expression (15b) is satisfied:

7.0<f4/f<25.0  (15b)

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the fifth lens has negative refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (16) is satisfied:

−3.5<f5/f<−0.3  (16)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f5: a focal length of the fifth lens.

When the conditional expression (16) is satisfied, the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected while downsizing the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the sixth lens has the positive refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (17) is satisfied:

0.3<f6/f<3.0  (17)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f6: a focal length of the sixth lens.

When the conditional expression (17) is satisfied, the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected while downsizing the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the sixth lens has the negative refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (18) is satisfied:

−20.0<f6/f<−8.0  (18)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f6: a focal length of the sixth lens.

When the conditional expression (18) is satisfied, the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected while downsizing the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, in order to achieve the wide field of view of the imaging lens more preferably, it is preferable that the fifth lens has the negative refractive power and the sixth lens has the positive refractive power. Providing such refractive power configuration, it is possible to properly correct the chromatic aberration of magnification that are prone to occur with achieving the wide field of view of the imaging lens.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the fifth lens has the negative refractive power and the sixth lens has the positive refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (19) is satisfied:

−2.5<f5/f6<−0.7  (19)

where f5: a focal length of the fifth lens, and f6: a focal length of the sixth lens.

When the conditional expression (19) is satisfied, the coma aberration and the chromatic aberration can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, when the seventh lens has the negative refractive power, it is preferable that the following conditional expression (20) is satisfied:

−30.0<f7/f<−0.3  (20)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f7: a focal length of the seventh lens.

When the conditional expression (20) is satisfied, the spherical aberration, the field curvature and the chromatic aberration of magnification can be properly corrected in well balance.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is more preferable that the following conditional expression (20a) is satisfied.

−25.0<f7/f<−0.3  (20a)

According to the imaging lens of the present invention, it is preferable that each lens of the first to the eighth lenses is arranged with an air gap. When each lens is arranged with an air gap, the imaging lens according to the present invention has a lens configuration without a cemented lens. According to such lens configuration, all of eight lenses composing the imaging lens can be formed from a plastic material and the manufacturing cost of the imaging lens can be preferably reduced.

According to the imaging lens of the present invention, it is preferable that both surfaces of each lens of the first to the eighth lenses are formed as aspheric surfaces. When the both surfaces of each lens are formed as aspheric surfaces, aberrations from a paraxial region to a peripheral area of the lens can be properly corrected. Particularly, the aberrations at the peripheral area of the lens can be properly corrected.

According to the imaging lens having the above-described configuration, it is preferable that at least two surfaces of the seventh lens and the eighth lens are formed as the aspheric surfaces having at least one inflection point. In addition to the image-side surface of the eighth lens, when one more aspheric surface having at least one inflection point is provided, it is also possible to control an incident angle of a light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane within the range of chief ray angle (CRA), and to properly correct the aberrations at an image periphery.

According to the present invention, as described above, the shapes of the lenses are specified using signs of the curvature radii. Whether the curvature radius of the lens is positive or negative is determined based on general definition. More specifically, taking a traveling direction of the light as positive, if a center of a curvature radius is on the image side when viewed from a lens surface, the curvature radius is positive. If a center of a curvature radius is on the object side, the curvature radius is negative. Therefore, “an object-side surface having a positive curvature radius” means that the object-side surface is a convex surface. “An object-side surface having a negative curvature radius” means that the object side surface is a concave surface. In addition, “an image-side surface having a positive curvature radius” means that the image-side surface is a concave surface. “An image-side surface having a negative curvature radius” means that the image-side surface is a convex surface. Here, a curvature radius used herein refers to a paraxial curvature radius, and may not be consistent with general shapes of the lenses in their sectional views.

According to the imaging lens of the present invention, it is achievable to provide a compact imaging lens especially suitable for mounting in a small-sized camera, while having a wide field of view and high resolution with proper correction of aberrations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 7;

FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 10;

FIG. 12 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 10;

FIG. 13 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 5 of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 13;

FIG. 15 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 13;

FIG. 16 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 6 of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 16;

FIG. 18 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 16;

FIG. 19 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 7 of the present invention;

FIG. 20 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 19;

FIG. 21 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 19;

FIG. 22 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 8 of the present invention;

FIG. 23 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 22;

FIG. 24 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 22;

FIG. 25 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 9 of the present invention;

FIG. 26 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 25;

FIG. 27 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 25;

FIG. 28 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 10 of the present invention;

FIG. 29 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 28;

FIG. 30 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 28;

FIG. 31 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 11 of the present invention;

FIG. 32 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 31;

FIG. 33 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 31;

FIG. 34 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 12 of the present invention;

FIG. 35 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 34;

FIG. 36 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 34;

FIG. 37 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 13 of the present invention;

FIG. 38 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 37;

FIG. 39 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 37;

FIG. 40 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 14 of the present invention;

FIG. 41 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 40;

FIG. 42 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 40;

FIG. 43 is a sectional view of a schematic configuration of an imaging lens in Example 15 of the present invention;

FIG. 44 is an aberration diagram showing spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion of the imaging lens of FIG. 43; and

FIG. 45 is an aberration diagram showing a lateral aberration of the imaging lens of FIG. 43.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Hereunder, referring to the accompanying drawings, an embodiment of the present invention will be fully described.

FIGS. 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, 40 and 43 are schematic sectional views of the imaging lenses in Examples 1 to 15 according to the embodiment, respectively. Since the imaging lenses in those Examples have the same basic configuration, the imaging lens of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the illustrative sectional view of Example 1.

As shown in FIG. 1, the imaging lens according to the present embodiment comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 with negative refractive power, a second lens L2 with negative refractive power, a third lens L3 with positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6, a seventh lens L7 and an eighth lens L8 with negative refractive power. Each lens of the first lens L1 to the eighth lens L8 is arranged with an air gap. A filter 10 is arranged between the eighth lens L8 and an image plane IM of an image sensor. The filter 10 is omissible.

The first lens L1 has a shape that a curvature radius r1 of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r2 of an image-side surface are both positive. The first lens L1 is formed in a meniscus shape having the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The shape of the first lens L1 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. The shape of the first lens L1 can be formed in any shape, as long as refractive power of the first lens L1 is negative. Other than the shape of the Example 1, the first lens L1 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radii r1 and r2 are both negative or a shape that the curvature radius r1 is negative and the curvature radius r2 is positive. The lens having the former shape is the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in the paraxial region, and the lens having the latter shape is a biconcave lens in the paraxial region. It is preferable that the curvature radius r1 of the first lens L1 is positive from the standpoint of downsizing the imaging lens.

In the Example 1, an aperture stop ST is disposed between the first lens L1 and the second lens L2. A location of the aperture stop ST is not limited to the one in the Example 1. The aperture stop ST may be disposed on the object side relative to the first lens L1. Otherwise, the aperture stop ST may be disposed between the second lens L2 and the third lens L3, between the third lens L3 and the fourth lens L4, between the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5 or the like.

The second lens L2 has a shape that a curvature radius r4 of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r5 of an image-side surface are both positive. The second lens L2 is formed in a meniscus shape having the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The shape of the second lens L2 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. The shape of the second lens L2 can be formed in any shape, as long as refractive power of the second lens L2 is negative. Other than the shape of the Example 1, the second lens L2 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radius r4 is negative and the curvature radius r5 is positive, or a shape that the curvature radii r4 and r5 are both negative. The lens having the former shape is a biconcave lens in the paraxial region, and the lens having the latter shape is the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in the paraxial region. It is preferable that the curvature radius r4 of the second lens L2 is positive from the standpoint of downsizing the imaging lens.

The third lens L3 has a shape that a curvature radius r6 of an object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius r7 of an image-side surface is negative. The third lens L3 is formed in a biconvex shape in a paraxial region. The shape of the third lens L3 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. The shape of the third lens L3 can be formed in any shape, as long as refractive power of the third lens L3 is positive. Examples 2, 3, 5 to 7 and 11 show a shape that the curvature radii r6 and r7 are both positive, that is, a meniscus shape having the object-side surface being convex in the paraxial region. Other than such shapes, the third lens L3 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radii r6 and r7 are both negative, that is, a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in the paraxial region. It is preferable that the curvature radius r6 of the third lens L3 is positive from the standpoint of downsizing the imaging lens.

The fourth lens L4 has positive refractive power. The refractive power of the fourth lens L4 is not limited to the positive refractive power. Examples of the lens configuration that the refractive power of the fourth lens L4 is negative are shown in Examples 8 to 15.

The fourth lens L4 is formed in a shape that a curvature radius r8 (=R4f) of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r9 (=R4r) of an image-side surface are both positive. The fourth lens L4 is formed in the meniscus shape having the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. In addition, the fourth lens L4 is formed in a shape having a concave surface facing the fifth lens L5 at a peripheral area of the lens. The shape of the fourth lens L4 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. Other than the shape of the Example 1, the fourth lens L4 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radii r8 and r9 are both negative or a shape that the curvature radius r8 is positive and the curvature radius r9 is negative. The lens having the former shape is the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in the paraxial region, and the lens having the latter shape is the biconvex lens in the paraxial region. Furthermore, the fourth lens L4 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radius r8 is negative and the curvature radius r9 is positive, that is, a shape of the biconcave lens in the paraxial region.

The fifth lens L5 has positive refractive power. The refractive power of the fifth lens L5 is not limited to the positive refractive power. Examples of the lens configuration that the refractive power of the fifth lens L5 is negative are shown in Examples 4 to 7, and 12 to 15.

The fifth lens L5 is formed in a shape that a curvature radius r10 of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r11 of an image-side surface are both negative. The fifth lens L5 is formed in the meniscus shape having the object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. Furthermore, the fifth lens L5 is formed in a shape having a concave surface facing the fourth lens L4 at a peripheral area of the lens. Namely, the above-mentioned fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5 are arranged in a manner that the concave surfaces of the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5 are faced each other at the peripheral area of the lens. With such shapes of fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5, the field curvature and the astigmatism can be properly corrected.

The shape of the fifth lens L5 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. Examples 4, 5, 13 and 14 show a shape that the curvature radius r10 is negative and the curvature radius r11 is positive, that is, a shape of the biconcave lens in the paraxial region. Examples 10, 12 and 15 show a shape that the curvature radii r10 and r11 are both positive, that is, a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being convex in the paraxial region. Other than such shapes, the fifth lens L5 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radius r10 is positive and the curvature radius r11 is negative, that is, a shape of the biconvex lens in the paraxial region. Furthermore, the fifth lens L5 may be formed in a shape having the curvature radii r10 and r11 of infinity and having refractive power at the peripheral area of the lens.

The sixth lens L6 has positive refractive power. The refractive power of the sixth lens L6 is not limited to the positive refractive power. Examples of the lens configuration that the refractive power of the sixth lens L6 is negative are shown in Examples 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 14.

The sixth lens L6 is formed in a shape that a curvature radius r12 of an object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius r13 of an image-side surface is negative. The sixth lens L6 is formed in a shape of the biconvex lens in a paraxial region. In addition, the shape of the sixth lens L6 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. Examples 2, 3 and 6 to 11 show a shape that the curvature radii r12 and r13 are both negative, that is, a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in the paraxial region. Example 14 shows a shape that the curvature radii r12 and r13 are both positive, that is, a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being convex in the paraxial region. Other than such shapes, the sixth lens L6 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radius r12 is negative and the curvature radius r13 is positive, that is, a shape of the biconcave lens in the paraxial region. Furthermore, the sixth lens L6 is formed in a shape having the curvature radii r12 and r13 of infinity in the paraxial region and having refractive power at a peripheral area of the lens.

The seventh lens L7 has negative refractive power. The refractive power of the seventh lens L7 is not limited to the negative refractive power. Examples of the lens configuration that the refractive power of the seventh lens L7 is positive are shown in Examples 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. In addition, an example of the seventh lens L7 that the refractive power becomes zero in the paraxial region is shown in the Example 15.

The seventh lens L7 is formed in a shape that a curvature radius r14 of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r15 of an image-side surface are both negative. The seventh lens L7 is formed in a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The shape of the seventh lens L7 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. Example 14 shows a shape that the curvature radius r14 is positive and the curvature radius r15 is negative, that is, a shape of the biconvex lens in the paraxial region. Example 15 shows a shape having the curvature radii r14 and r15 of infinity in the paraxial region and having refractive power at a peripheral area of the lens. Other than such shapes, the seventh lens L7 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radii r14 and r15 are both positive or a shape that the curvature radius r14 is negative and the curvature radius r15 is positive. The lens having the former shape is the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being convex in the paraxial region, and the lens having the latter shape is the biconcave lens in the paraxial region.

The eighth lens L8 is formed in a shape that a curvature radius r16 of an object-side surface and a curvature radius r17 (=R8r) of an image-side surface are both positive. The eighth lens L8 is formed in a shape of the meniscus lens having the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The shape of the eighth lens L8 is not limited to the one in the Example 1. The shape of the eighth lens L8 may be a shape that the curvature radius r16 is negative and the curvature radius r17 is positive, that is, a shape of the biconcave lens in the paraxial region. Other than such shapes, the eighth lens L8 may be formed in a shape that the curvature radii r16 and r17 are both negative. Furthermore, the eighth lens L8 may be formed in a shape that refractive power of the eighth lens L8 is negative.

Regarding the eighth lens L8, the image-side surface is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one inflection point. Here, the “inflection point” means a point where the positive/negative sign of a curvature changes on the curve, i.e., a point where a direction of curving of the curve on the lens surface changes. The image-side surface of the eighth lens L8 of the imaging lens according to the present embodiment is the aspheric surface having at least one pole. With such shape of the eighth lens L8, off-axial chromatic aberration of magnification as well as axial chromatic aberration can be properly corrected, and an incident angle of a light ray emitted from the imaging lens to the image plane IM can be preferably controlled within the range of chief ray angle (CRA). Depending on the required optical performance and extent of downsizing of the imaging lens, among lens surfaces of the seventh lens L7 and the eighth lens L8, lens surfaces other than the image-side surface of the eighth lens L8 may be formed as an aspheric surface without the inflection point.

According to the embodiment, the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) to (14):

−4.0<f12/f<−1.0  (1)

−30.0<f2/f3<−4.0  (2)

0.15<f3/f<0.95  (3)

0.5<R4f/R4r<2.5  (4)

0.03<D45/f<0.30  (5)

−15.0<f78/f<−0.2  (6)

0.4<T7/T8<2.5  (7)

−7.0<f8/f<−0.3  (8)

0.1<R8r/f<0.6  (9)

10<vd1<35  (10)

35<vd2<85  (11)

35<vd3<85  (12)

35<vd8<85  (13)

1.0<TL/f<1.5  (14)

where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, f2: a focal length of the second lens L2, f3: a focal length of the third lens L3, f8: a focal length of the eighth lens L8, f12: a composite focal length of the first lens L1 and the second lens L2, f78: a composite focal length of the seventh lens L7 and the eighth lens L8, T7: a thickness along the optical axis X of the seventh lens L7, T8: a thickness along the optical axis X of the eighth lens L8, vd1: an abbe number at d-ray of the first lens L1, vd2: an abbe number at d-ray of the second lens L2, vd3: an abbe number at d-ray of the third lens L3, vd8: an abbe number at d-ray of the eighth lens L8, R4f: a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fourth lens L4, R4r: a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fourth lens L4, R8r: a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the eighth lens L8, D45: a distance along the optical axis X between the fourth lens L4 and the fifth lens L5, and TL: a distance along the optical axis X from an object-side surface of the first lens L1 to an image plane IM (Filter 10 is an air-converted distance).

When the fourth lens L4 has positive refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 1 to 7, the following conditional expressions (15), (15a) and (15b) are further satisfied:

4.0<f4/f<35.0  (15)

6.0<f4/f<30.0  (15a)

7.0<f4/f<25.0  (15b)

where f4: a focal length of the fourth lens L4.

When the fifth lens L5 has negative refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 4 to 7, and 12 to 15, the following conditional expression (16) is further satisfied.

−3.5<f5/f<−0.3  (16)

where f5: a focal length of the fifth lens L5.

When the sixth lens L6 has positive refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 15, the following conditional expression (17) is further satisfied.

0.3<f6/f<3.0  (17)

where f6: a focal length of the sixth lens L6.

When the sixth lens L6 has negative refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 14, the following conditional expression (18) is further satisfied.

−20.0<f6/f<−8.0  (18)

When the fifth lens L5 has the negative refractive power and the sixth lens L6 has the positive refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 4, 5, 12, 13 and 15, the following conditional expression (19) is further satisfied.

−2.5<f5/f6<−0.7  (19)

When the seventh lens L7 has the negative refractive power as in the lens configurations in Examples 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, the following conditional expressions (20) and (20a) are further satisfied:

−30.0<f7/f<−0.3  (20)

−25.0<f7/f<−0.3  (20a)

where f7: a focal length of the seventh lens L7.

It is not necessary to satisfy the above all conditional expressions, and when any one of the conditional expressions is individually satisfied, operational advantage corresponding to each conditional expression can be obtained.

According to the present embodiment, lens surfaces of the respective lenses are formed as aspheric surfaces. An equation that expresses these aspheric surfaces is shown below:

$\begin{matrix} {Z = {\frac{C \cdot H^{2}}{1 + \sqrt{1 - {\left( {1 + k} \right) \cdot C^{2} \cdot H^{2}}}} + {\sum\left( {{An} \cdot H^{n}} \right)}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack \end{matrix}$

where Z: a distance in a direction of the optical axis, H: a distance from the optical axis in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, C: a paraxial curvature (=1/r, r: a paraxial curvature radius), k: conic constant, and An: the nth aspheric coefficient.

Next, examples of the imaging lens according to the present embodiment will be described. In each example, f represents a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, Fno represents a F-number, ω represents a half field of view. Additionally, i represents a surface number counted from the object side, r represents a paraxial curvature radius, d represents a distance of lenses along the optical axis (surface distance), nd represents a refractive index at a reference wavelength of 588 nm, and vd represents an abbe number at the reference wavelength, respectively. Here, surfaces indicated with surface numbers i affixed with an asterisk (*) are aspheric surfaces.

Example 1

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 1.

TABLE 1 f = 6.54 mm Fno = 2.0 ω = 28.6° i r d nd vd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 3.847 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −14.209  2* 2.655 0.645 3(ST) ∞ −0.410 L2  4* 2.350 0.497 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −25.944  5* 1.864 0.050 L3  6* 2.053 0.707 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.437  7* −18.573 0.030 L4  8* 2.443 0.249 1.6503 21.5 f4 = 101.285  9* 2.435 1.623 L5 10* −8.334 0.555 1.6707 19.2 f5 = 102.865 11* −7.635 0.067 L6 12* 117.718 0.316 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 4.376 13* −2.386 0.085 L7 14* −2.242 0.349 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −4.445 15* −9.602 0.143 L8 16* 3.982 0.578 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −8.216 17* 1.983 0.301 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.391 (IM) ∞ f12=−8.698 mm f78=−2.624 mm

R4f=2.443 mm R4r=2.435 mm R8r=1.983 mm D45=1.623 mm T7=0.349 mm T8=0.578 mm TL=7.564 mm

TABLE 2 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.940E−02 −2.357E−02 1.930E−02 −1.340E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.087E−02 −1.563E−02 1.273E−02 −1.450E−02 4 −6.457E+00   2.722E−03 −1.299E−02 5.765E−02 −8.845E−02 5 −1.310E+00  −1.902E−01  1.185E−01 −6.644E−02   1.942E−02 6 −3.240E+00  −4.374E−02  1.050E−02 3.436E−02 −6.133E−02 7 0.000E+00  3.782E−02 −8.616E−02 1.354E−01 −1.356E−01 8 1.302E−01 −5.189E−02 −4.030E−02 6.634E−02 −5.517E−02 9 −1.021E+01   3.164E−02 −8.152E−03 −5.487E−02   1.217E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.973E−01  5.338E−01 −9.992E−01   1.209E+00 11 0.000E+00 −7.181E−01  1.670E+00 −2.333E+00   2.145E+00 12 2.111E+03 −9.382E−01  2.017E+00 −2.517E+00   2.052E+00 13 5.811E−01  6.872E−02 −1.830E−01 3.494E−01 −3.940E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.726E−01 −7.334E−01 6.818E−01 −4.321E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.431E−01 −4.781E−01 3.632E−01 −1.827E−01 16 1.659E+00 −1.157E−01 −6.411E−04 1.259E−02 −1.849E−03 17 −1.177E+01  −6.247E−02  5.271E−03 6.926E−03 −3.374E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.743E−03 −2.218E−03 4.623E−04 −5.595E−05 2.991E−06 2 1.124E−02 −5.302E−03 1.533E−03 −2.468E−04 1.672E−05 4 7.170E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.803E−03 1.269E−04 5 8.195E−03 −1.161E−02 5.232E−03 −1.102E−03 9.079E−05 6 5.757E−02 −3.134E−02 9.852E−03 −1.638E−03 1.085E−04 7 9.488E−02 −4.528E−02 1.381E−02 −2.390E−03 1.744E−04 8 4.430E−02 −3.316E−02 1.634E−02 −4.311E−03 4.615E−04 9 −1.228E−01   7.000E−02 −2.295E−02   3.987E−03 −2.764E−04  10 −9.688E−01   5.134E−01 −1.730E−01   3.356E−02 −2.855E−03  11 −1.342E+00   5.652E−01 −1.528E−01   2.388E−02 −1.634E−03  12 −1.141E+00   4.319E−01 −1.084E−01   1.653E−02 −1.164E−03  13 2.865E−01 −1.348E−01 3.909E−02 −6.322E−03 4.389E−04 14 1.918E−01 −5.804E−02 1.115E−02 −1.210E−03 5.820E−05 15 6.289E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.156E−06 16 −5.705E−04   2.148E−04 −2.807E−05   1.760E−06 −5.409E−08  17 8.107E−04 −1.176E−04 1.038E−05 −5.134E−07 1.088E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.33     -   f2/f3=−7.55     -   f3/f=0.53     -   R4f/R4r=1.00     -   D45/f=0.25     -   f78/f=−0.40     -   T7/T8=0.60     -   f8/f=−1.26     -   R8r/f=0.30     -   TL/f=1.16     -   f4/f=15.49     -   f6/f=0.67     -   f7/f=−0.68

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 1 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 2 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%) of the imaging lens in Example 1, respectively. The astigmatism diagram and distortion diagram show aberrations at the reference wavelength (588 nm). Furthermore, in the astigmatism diagram, a sagittal image surface (S) and a tangential image surface (T) are shown respectively (same for FIGS. 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38, 41 and 44). FIG. 3 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to a ratio H of each image height to the maximum image height Hmax (hereinafter referred to as “image height ratio H”), which is divided into a tangential direction and a sagittal direction (same for FIGS. 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42 and 45). As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, according to the imaging lens of the Example 1, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 2

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 3.

TABLE 3 f = 8.10 mm Fno = 3.3 ω = 23.8° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 3.567 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −12.561  2* 2.422 0.310 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.065 0.479 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −99.815  5* 1.827 0.030 L3  6* 1.725 0.651 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.501  7* 15.724 0.052 L4  8* 3.823 0.250 1.6707 19.2 f4 = 103.472  9* 3.939 1.529 L5 10* −16.209 0.472 1.6503 21.5 f5 = 101.210 11* −13.155 0.095 L6 12* −3.946 0.291 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.273 13* −4.368 0.373 L7 14* −1.804 0.341 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 102.495 15* −1.891 0.061 L8 16* 4.193 0.306 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −7.490 17* 1.996 0.083 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 2.314 (IM) ∞ f12=−10.345 mm f78=−7.503 mm

R4f=3.823 mm R4r=3.939 mm R8r=1.996 mm D45=1.529 mm T7=0.341 mm T8=0.306 mm TL=7.745 mm

TABLE 4 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −3.746E−02 −2.863E−02 2.483E−02 −1.566E−02 2 0.000E+00 −6.026E−02 −3.351E−02 2.704E−02 −1.249E−02 4 −4.087E+00   1.560E−02 −2.670E−03 4.277E−02 −8.226E−02 5 −1.039E+00  −1.731E−01  1.286E−01 −5.683E−02   1.614E−02 6 −3.628E+00  −3.853E−02  2.766E−02 3.228E−02 −5.968E−02 7 0.000E+00  3.483E−03 −4.485E−02 1.247E−01 −1.224E−01 8 −1.093E+01  −5.820E−02 −1.807E−02 1.036E−01 −7.789E−02 9 −2.749E+01  −2.213E−03  7.699E−03 −3.690E−02   1.277E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.623E−01  4.334E−01 −9.633E−01   1.226E+00 11 0.000E+00 −5.914E−01  1.515E+00 −2.350E+00   2.172E+00 12 0.000E+00 −6.916E−01  1.779E+00 −2.484E+00   2.058E+00 13 0.000E+00 −1.557E−02 −1.491E−01 3.432E−01 −3.956E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.150E−01 −6.235E−01 6.451E−01 −4.263E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.498E−01 −4.713E−01 3.685E−01 −1.817E−01 16 3.595E+00 −1.200E−01 −2.218E−02 1.883E−02 −1.631E−03 17 −1.833E+01  −8.249E−02  1.033E−02 4.670E−03 −3.381E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 8.597E−03 −2.237E−03 −3.411E−04   2.803E−04 −2.911E−05  2 9.023E−03 −5.657E−03 1.851E−03 −3.361E−04 5.056E−05 4 7.691E−02 −3.748E−02 8.960E−03 −1.075E−03 8.651E−05 5 5.787E−03 −1.197E−02 4.254E−03 −3.110E−03 1.441E−03 6 6.455E−02 −3.356E−02 2.590E−03 −3.676E−03 2.943E−03 7 9.944E−02 −5.996E−02 −2.665E−03  −1.687E−03 1.061E−02 8 5.099E−02 −4.721E−02 8.025E−04  8.624E−03 5.051E−03 9 −1.356E−01   6.492E−02 −2.588E−02   1.498E−02 −1.179E−03  10 −9.775E−01   5.010E−01 −1.729E−01   4.166E−02 −5.976E−03  11 −1.332E+00   5.648E−01 −1.544E−01   2.354E−02 −1.881E−03  12 −1.126E+00   4.376E−01 −1.106E−01   1.457E−02 −1.036E−03  13 2.862E−01 −1.344E−01 3.971E−02 −6.067E−03 2.178E−04 14 1.956E−01 −5.826E−02 1.068E−02 −1.348E−03 1.050E−04 15 6.291E−02 −1.475E−02 2.126E−03 −2.001E−04 1.591E−05 16 −9.678E−04   1.819E−04 −1.822E−05  −1.475E−06 2.038E−06 17 9.130E−04 −1.131E−04 4.254E−06 −1.911E−06 4.682E−07

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.28     -   f2/f3=−28.51     -   f3/f=0.43     -   R4f/R4r=0.97     -   D45/f=0.19     -   f78/f=−0.93     -   T7/T8=1.11     -   f8/f=−0.92     -   R8r/f=0.25     -   TL/f=0.96     -   f4/f=12.77     -   f6/f=−12.37

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 2 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 5 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 6 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, according to the imaging lens of the Example 2, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 3

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 5.

TABLE 5 f = 7.55 mm Fno = 3.1 ω = 25.4° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 5.449 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −14.598  2* 3.423 0.310 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.329 0.561 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −26.215  5* 1.832 0.037 L3  6* 1.625 0.889 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.156  7* 24.271 0.059 L4  8* 6.264 1.006 1.6707 19.2 f4 = 101.688  9* 6.453 0.831 L5 10* −4.461 0.433 1.6503 21.5 f5 = 101.572 11* −4.339 0.070 L6 12* −3.189 0.287 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.250 13* −3.497 0.270 L7 14* −1.830 0.320 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −11.220 15* −2.588 0.029 L8 16* 3.578 0.356 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −18.918 17* 2.551 0.082 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 2.086 (IM) ∞ f12=−8.828 mm f78=−6.659 mm

R4f=6.264 mm R4r=6.453 mm R8r=2.551 mm D45=0.831 mm T7=0.320 mm T8=0.356 mm TL=7.736 mm

TABLE 6 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −4.877E−02 −2.243E−02 2.240E−02 −1.518E−02 2 0.000E+00 −6.442E−02 −2.333E−02 2.901E−02 −1.740E−02 4 −4.530E+00   2.134E−02 −5.331E−03 4.214E−02 −7.808E−02 5 −7.600E−01  −1.632E−01  1.221E−01 −5.889E−02   1.267E−02 6 −3.554E+00  −3.926E−02  3.618E−02 2.446E−02 −6.675E−02 7 0.000E+00 −1.137E−02 −6.072E−03 9.207E−02 −1.169E−01 8 1.466E+00 −4.898E−02 −1.699E−02 1.072E−01 −1.114E−01 9 −3.855E+01  −8.040E−03  7.017E−03 −3.845E−02   1.120E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.637E−01  4.050E−01 −9.537E−01   1.232E+00 11 0.000E+00 −5.854E−01  1.510E+00 −2.348E+00   2.176E+00 12 0.000E+00 −7.035E−01  1.781E+00 −2.480E+00   2.058E+00 13 0.000E+00 −2.332E−02 −1.570E−01 3.408E−01 −3.949E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.301E−01 −6.454E−01 6.430E−01 −4.252E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.101E−01 −4.649E−01 3.668E−01 −1.826E−01 16 2.928E+00 −1.260E−01 −1.381E−02 1.708E−02 −2.357E−03 17 −2.689E+01  −6.433E−02  4.756E−03 5.513E−03 −3.388E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 9.142E−03 −2.535E−03 −5.085E−04   4.637E−04 −7.450E−05  2 8.850E−03 −3.689E−03 2.143E−03 −1.313E−03 3.233E−04 4 7.632E−02 −3.945E−02 8.961E−03  8.574E−06 −2.838E−04  5 5.228E−03 −1.211E−02 4.294E−03 −2.046E−03 1.090E−03 6 6.101E−02 −3.245E−02 4.983E−03 −3.243E−03 2.418E−03 7 8.883E−02 −7.414E−02 8.361E−03  2.333E−02 −4.539E−03  8 4.351E−02 −2.839E−02 1.542E−02  2.089E−03 9.357E−04 9 −1.477E−01   8.816E−02 −5.674E−03  −2.024E−02 1.013E−02 10 −9.786E−01   4.961E−01 −1.770E−01   4.080E−02 −1.758E−03  11 −1.332E+00   5.637E−01 −1.554E−01   2.309E−02 −1.541E−03  12 −1.126E+00   4.377E−01 −1.105E−01   1.448E−02 −1.304E−03  13 2.866E−01 −1.344E−01 3.957E−02 −6.151E−03 2.319E−04 14 1.962E−01 −5.819E−02 1.053E−02 −1.463E−03 7.504E−05 15 6.271E−02 −1.474E−02 2.168E−03 −1.900E−04 1.090E−05 16 −1.018E−03   1.908E−04 −1.353E−05  −1.675E−06 1.740E−06 17 8.762E−04 −1.185E−04 5.977E−06 −1.146E−06 3.112E−07

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.17     -   f2/f3=−8.31     -   f3/f=0.42     -   R4f/R4r=0.97     -   D45/f=0.11     -   f78/f=−0.88     -   T7/T8=0.90     -   f8/f=−2.50     -   R8r/f=0.34     -   TL/f=1.02     -   f4/f=13.46     -   f6/f=−13.27     -   f7/f=−1.49

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 3 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 8 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 9 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, according to the imaging lens of the Example 3, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 4

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 7.

TABLE 7 f = 6.16 mm Fno = 1.8 ω = 30.2° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 2.898 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −16.057  2* 2.188 0.746 3(ST) ∞ −0.410 L2  4* 2.471 0.482 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −22.366  5* 1.913 0.110 L3  6* 1.894 0.665 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.477  7* −4970.219 0.029 L4  8* 2.255 0.249 1.6503 21.5 f4 = 101.491  9* 2.233 1.370 L5 10* −9.252 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f5 = −4.066 11* 3.917 0.103 L6 12* 3.054 0.433 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 3.551 13* −4.774 0.149 L7 14* −55.976 0.444 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 102.066 15* −30.894 0.385 L8 16* 5.094 0.559 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −6.722 17* 2.027 0.689 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.849 (IM) ∞ f12=−8.961 mm f78=−7.250 mm

R4f=2.255 mm R4r=2.233 mm R8r=2.027 mm D45=1.370 mm T7=0.444 mm T8=0.559 mm TL=7.539 mm

TABLE 8 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1  0.000E+00 −1.815E−02 −2.357E−02 1.916E−02 −1.347E−02 2  0.000E+00 −2.996E−02 −1.823E−02 1.228E−02 −1.436E−02 4 −5.431E+00 −1.906E−03 −1.172E−02 5.808E−02 −8.859E−02 5 −1.220E+00 −1.889E−01  1.192E−01 −6.650E−02   1.933E−02 6 −2.851E+00 −4.966E−02  8.077E−03 3.447E−02 −6.121E−02 7 −1.499E+06  3.029E−02 −8.738E−02 1.358E−01 −1.358E−01 8  1.425E−01 −5.293E−02 −3.877E−02 6.457E−02 −5.523E−02 9 −7.242E+00  2.283E−02 −7.936E−03 −5.459E−02   1.210E−01 10  0.000E+00 −2.261E−01  5.484E−01 −1.000E+00   1.210E+00 11 −5.882E−01 −7.898E−01  1.682E+00 −2.327E+00   2.145E+00 12 −9.871E−02 −9.846E−01  2.033E+00 −2.523E+00   2.053E+00 13  2.952E+00  3.901E−02 −1.900E−01 3.522E−01 −3.945E−01 14  0.000E+00  4.206E−01 −7.312E−01 6.781E−01 −4.327E−01 15  0.000E+00  3.266E−01 −4.801E−01 3.636E−01 −1.827E−01 16  1.875E+00 −1.305E−01  1.931E−03 1.259E−02 −1.824E−03 17 −1.265E+01 −6.884E−02  4.837E−03 7.130E−03 −3.407E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.751E−03 −2.213E−03 4.623E−04 −5.625E−05 3.019E−06 2 1.125E−02 −5.314E−03 1.532E−03 −2.454E−04 1.653E−05 4 7.168E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.804E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.185E−03 −1.160E−02 5.234E−03 −1.103E−03 9.093E−05 6 5.759E−02 −3.137E−02 9.844E−03 −1.637E−03 1.097E−04 7 9.491E−02 −4.527E−02 1.381E−02 −2.392E−03 1.773E−04 8 4.435E−02 −3.320E−02 1.632E−02 −4.311E−03 4.691E−04 9 −1.229E−01   6.990E−02 −2.298E−02   4.051E−03 −2.858E−04  10 −9.691E−01   5.131E−01 −1.731E−01   3.363E−02 −2.850E−03  11 −1.343E+00   5.651E−01 −1.529E−01   2.387E−02 −1.619E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.321E−01 −1.084E−01   1.650E−02 −1.168E−03  13 2.864E−01 −1.347E−01 3.915E−02 −6.310E−03 4.273E−04 14 1.921E−01 −5.787E−02 1.115E−02 −1.238E−03 6.183E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.153E−06 16 −5.592E−04   2.126E−04 −2.853E−05   1.832E−06 −5.107E−08  17 8.096E−04 −1.172E−04 1.041E−05 −5.158E−07 1.057E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.45     -   f2/f3=−6.43     -   f3/f=0.56     -   R4f/R4r=1.01     -   D45/f=0.22     -   f78/f=−1.18     -   T7/T8=0.80     -   f8/f=−1.09     -   R8r/f=0.33     -   TL/f=1.22     -   f4/f=16.47     -   f5/f=−0.66     -   f6/f=0.58     -   f5/f6=−1.15

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 4 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 11 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 12 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, according to the imaging lens of the Example 4, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 5

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 9.

TABLE 9 f = 6.13 mm Fno = 1.8 ω = 30.3° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 2.936 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −15.603  2* 2.199 0.759 3(ST) ∞ −0.410 L2  4* 2.471 0.492 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −24.613  5* 1.940 0.120 L3  6* 1.895 0.673 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.486  7* 970.849 0.029 L4  8* 2.255 0.248 1.6503 21.5 f4 = 101.483  9* 2.233 1.388 L5 10* −10.199 0.299 1.6707 19.2 f5 = −4.367 11* 4.158 0.103 L6 12* 3.152 0.433 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 3.618 13* −4.774 0.149 L7 14* −26.739 0.462 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −101.390 15* −44.370 0.317 L8 16* 4.992 0.588 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −7.012 17* 2.053 0.111 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.395 (IM) ∞ f12=−9.116 mm f78=−6.456 mm

R4f=2.255 mm R4r=2.233 mm R8r=2.053 mm D45=1.388 mm T7=0.462 mm T8=0.588 mm TL=7.544 mm

TABLE 10 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.829E−02 −2.355E−02 1.917E−02 −1.346E−02 2 0.000E+00 −2.986E−02 −1.818E−02 1.229E−02 −1.436E−02 4 −5.492E+00  −1.765E−03 −1.174E−02 5.807E−02 −8.858E−02 5 −1.224E+00  −1.889E−01  1.192E−01 −6.649E−02   1.934E−02 6 −2.843E+00  −4.960E−02  8.090E−03 3.448E−02 −6.121E−02 7 0.000E+00  3.066E−02 −8.728E−02 1.358E−01 −1.358E−01 8 1.525E−01 −5.258E−02 −3.879E−02 6.459E−02 −5.523E−02 9 −7.278E+00   2.282E−02 −7.935E−03 −5.454E−02   1.210E−01 10 0.000E+00 −2.263E−01  5.484E−01 −1.000E+00   1.210E+00 11 −5.044E−01  −7.897E−01  1.682E+00 −2.327E+00   2.145E+00 12 4.237E−02 −9.841E−01  2.033E+00 −2.523E+00   2.053E+00 13 2.576E+00  4.097E−02 −1.904E−01 3.522E−01 −3.945E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.196E−01 −7.312E−01 6.782E−01 −4.326E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.264E−01 −4.797E−01 3.637E−01 −1.827E−01 16 1.927E+00 −1.300E−01  1.934E−03 1.258E−02 −1.825E−03 17 −1.356E+01  −6.859E−02  4.725E−03 7.126E−03 −3.405E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.751E−03 −2.213E−03 4.624E−04 −5.624E−05 3.015E−06 2 1.125E−02 −5.314E−03 1.532E−03 −2.454E−04 1.652E−05 4 7.168E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.804E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.186E−03 −1.160E−02 5.234E−03 −1.104E−03 9.092E−05 6 5.759E−02 −3.137E−02 9.844E−03 −1.637E−03 1.096E−04 7 9.491E−02 −4.527E−02 1.381E−02 −2.392E−03 1.771E−04 8 4.435E−02 −3.320E−02 1.632E−02 −4.312E−03 4.693E−04 9 −1.229E−01   6.990E−02 −2.299E−02   4.049E−03 −2.846E−04  10 −9.690E−01   5.131E−01 −1.731E−01   3.363E−02 −2.852E−03  11 −1.342E+00   5.651E−01 −1.529E−01   2.387E−02 −1.618E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.321E−01 −1.084E−01   1.650E−02 −1.169E−03  13 2.864E−01 −1.347E−01 3.914E−02 −6.312E−03 4.276E−04 14 1.921E−01 −5.788E−02 1.115E−02 −1.238E−03 6.200E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.150E−06 16 −5.592E−04   2.127E−04 −2.852E−05   1.832E−06 −5.178E−08  17 8.098E−04 −1.172E−04 1.041E−05 −5.159E−07 1.052E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.49     -   f2/f3=−7.06     -   f3/f=0.57     -   R4f/R4r=1.01     -   D45/f=0.23     -   f78/f=−1.05     -   T7/T8=0.78     -   f8/f=−1.14     -   R8r/f=0.34     -   TL/f=1.23     -   f4/f=16.56     -   f5/f=−0.71     -   f6/f=0.59     -   f5/f6=−1.21     -   f7/f=−16.54

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 5 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 14 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 15 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 14 and 15, according to the imaging lens of the Example 5, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 6

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 11.

TABLE 11 f = 7.69 mm Fno = 3.2 ω = 25.0° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 4.672 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −14.376  2* 3.066 0.310 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.241 0.682 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −40.189  5* 1.815 0.042 L3  6* 1.640 0.990 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.130  7* 34.529 0.041 L4  8* 4.735 0.585 1.6707 19.2 f4 = 101.701  9* 4.835 1.064 L5 10* −3.518 0.366 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −11.526 11* −6.901 0.065 L6 12* −4.239 0.289 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.313 13* −4.711 0.247 L7 14* −2.240 0.317 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 101.846 15* −2.292 0.030 L8 16* 3.831 0.357 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −14.847 17* 2.500 0.615 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.622 (IM) ∞ f12=−9.702 mm f78=−16.432 mm

R4f=4.735 mm R4r=4.835 mm R8r=2.500 mm D45=1.064 mm T7=0.317 mm T8=0.357 mm TL=7.729 mm

TABLE 12 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −4.799E−02 −2.302E−02 2.211E−02 −1.516E−02 2 0.000E+00 −6.575E−02 −2.308E−02 2.861E−02 −1.750E−02 4 −4.214E+00   2.168E−02 −5.655E−03 4.200E−02 −7.818E−02 5 −7.650E−01  −1.631E−01  1.211E−01 −5.934E−02   1.266E−02 6 −3.625E+00  −4.023E−02  3.598E−02 2.457E−02 −6.684E−02 7 0.000E+00 −1.228E−02 −2.825E−03 9.033E−02 −1.187E−01 8 −3.502E+00  −5.306E−02 −2.028E−02 1.103E−01 −1.107E−01 9 −1.826E+01  −1.334E−02 −2.633E−03 −2.806E−02   1.129E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.832E−01  4.100E−01 −9.550E−01   1.231E+00 11 0.000E+00 −6.030E−01  1.510E+00 −2.348E+00   2.175E+00 12 0.000E+00 −7.084E−01  1.776E+00 −2.483E+00   2.058E+00 13 0.000E+00 −3.133E−02 −1.567E−01 3.416E−01 −3.951E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.201E−01 −6.406E−01 6.423E−01 −4.265E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.145E−01 −4.686E−01 3.678E−01 −1.821E−01 16 2.973E+00 −1.295E−01 −1.408E−02 1.750E−02 −2.345E−03 17 −2.886E+01  −6.392E−02  4.175E−03 5.234E−03 −3.372E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 9.170E−03 −2.526E−03 −5.051E−04   4.610E−04 −7.573E−05  2 8.864E−03 −3.679E−03 2.160E−03 −1.317E−03 3.204E−04 4 7.627E−02 −3.948E−02 8.928E−03 −6.247E−06 −2.509E−04  5 5.296E−03 −1.228E−02 4.111E−03 −2.173E−03 1.265E−03 6 6.109E−02 −3.222E−02 5.263E−03 −3.151E−03 2.167E−03 7 8.978E−02 −7.320E−02 6.468E−03  2.048E−02 −6.734E−04  8 3.878E−02 −3.329E−02 1.555E−02  6.641E−03 1.549E−03 9 −1.581E−01   8.063E−02 4.892E−04 −7.188E−03 1.731E−03 10 −9.790E−01   4.963E−01 −1.765E−01   4.107E−02 −2.429E−03  11 −1.332E+00   5.640E−01 −1.552E−01   2.318E−02 −1.689E−03  12 −1.126E+00   4.379E−01 −1.103E−01   1.457E−02 −1.317E−03  13 2.863E−01 −1.345E−01 3.955E−02 −6.113E−03 2.762E−04 14 1.957E−01 −5.825E−02 1.064E−02 −1.384E−03 9.141E−05 15 6.279E−02 −1.476E−02 2.134E−03 −1.976E−04 1.527E−05 16 −1.075E−03   1.789E−04 −1.195E−05   3.611E−07 2.561E−06 17 8.851E−04 −1.159E−04 5.744E−06 −1.526E−06 3.642E−07

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.26     -   f2/f3=−12.84     -   f3/f=0.41     -   R4f/R4r=0.98     -   D45/f=0.14     -   f78/f=−2.14     -   T7/T8=0.89     -   f8/f=−1.93     -   R8r/f=0.33     -   TL/f=1.00     -   f4/f=13.22     -   f5/f=−1.50     -   f6/f=−13.04

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 6 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 17 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 18 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, according to the imaging lens of the Example 6, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 7

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 13.

TABLE 13 f = 7.63 mm Fno = 3.2 ω = 25.1° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 5.141 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −14.755  2* 3.304 0.310 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.283 0.659 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −31.265  5* 1.808 0.042 L3  6* 1.627 0.962 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.100  7* 35.785 0.047 L4  8* 5.310 0.731 1.6707 19.2 f4 = 101.636  9* 5.441 1.001 L5 10* −3.391 0.369 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −13.175 11* −5.853 0.064 L6 12* −3.986 0.288 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.298 13* −4.415 0.244 L7 14* −2.218 0.318 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −100.070 15* −2.426 0.029 L8 16* 3.708 0.365 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −17.090 17* 2.547 1.114 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.078 (IM) ∞ f12=−9.278 mm f78=−13.815 mm

R4f=5.310 mm R4r=5.441 mm R8r=2.547 mm D45=1.001 mm T7=0.318 mm T8=0.365 mm TL=7.728 mm

TABLE 14 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −4.866E−02 −2.287E−02 2.221E−02 −1.513E−02 2 0.000E+00 −6.491E−02 −2.289E−02 2.881E−02 −1.750E−02 4 −4.306E+00   2.155E−02 −5.422E−03 4.214E−02 −7.812E−02 5 −7.585E−01  −1.631E−01  1.212E−01 −5.941E−02   1.248E−02 6 −3.582E+00  −3.960E−02  3.588E−02 2.424E−02 −6.690E−02 7 0.000E+00 −1.157E−02 −4.211E−03 9.119E−02 −1.181E−01 8 −1.796E+00  −5.078E−02 −1.834E−02 1.077E−01 −1.116E−01 9 −2.235E+01  −1.140E−02  1.022E−03 −3.249E−02   1.120E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.776E−01  4.056E−01 −9.533E−01   1.232E+00 11 0.000E+00 −5.988E−01  1.510E+00 −2.348E+00   2.175E+00 12 0.000E+00 −7.081E−01  1.778E+00 −2.482E+00   2.058E+00 13 0.000E+00 −3.034E−02 −1.579E−01 3.414E−01 −3.950E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.206E−01 −6.444E−01 6.422E−01 −4.261E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.095E−01 −4.679E−01 3.675E−01 −1.823E−01 16 2.945E+00 −1.303E−01 −1.295E−02 1.716E−02 −2.427E−03 17 −2.900E+01  −6.242E−02  3.815E−03 5.366E−03 −3.376E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 9.169E−03 −2.533E−03 −5.117E−04   4.579E−04 −7.308E−05  2 8.839E−03 −3.698E−03 2.158E−03 −1.315E−03 3.213E−04 4 7.626E−02 −3.950E−02 8.930E−03  4.169E−06 −2.574E−04  5 5.194E−03 −1.227E−02 4.144E−03 −2.146E−03 1.252E−03 6 6.096E−02 −3.242E−02 5.122E−03 −3.164E−03 2.282E−03 7 8.912E−02 −7.374E−02 7.522E−03  2.218E−02 −2.673E−03  8 4.170E−02 −3.032E−02 1.511E−02  3.614E−03 1.903E−03 9 −1.541E−01   8.367E−02 −1.677E−03  −1.213E−02 4.636E−03 10 −9.789E−01   4.957E−01 −1.774E−01   4.072E−02 −1.509E−03  11 −1.332E+00   5.639E−01 −1.554E−01   2.311E−02 −1.608E−03  12 −1.127E+00   4.379E−01 −1.103E−01   1.456E−02 −1.336E−03  13 2.864E−01 −1.345E−01 3.952E−02 −6.133E−03 2.778E−04 14 1.959E−01 −5.822E−02 1.060E−02 −1.410E−03 8.495E−05 15 6.277E−02 −1.475E−02 2.142E−03 −1.963E−04 1.425E−05 16 −1.063E−03   1.841E−04 −1.224E−05  −3.498E−07 2.373E−06 17 8.768E−04 −1.162E−04 6.223E−06 −1.410E−06 3.263E−07

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.22     -   f2/f3=−10.08     -   f3/f=0.41     -   R4f/R4r=0.98     -   D45/f=0.13     -   f78/f=−1.81     -   T7/T8=0.87     -   f8/f=−2.24     -   R8r/f=0.33     -   TL/f=1.01     -   f4/f=13.33     -   f5/f=−1.73     -   f6/f=−13.15     -   f7/f=−13.12

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 7 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 20 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 21 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 20 and 21, according to the imaging lens of the Example 7, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 8

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 15.

TABLE 15 f = 7.46 mm Fno = 2.3 ω = 25.4° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 4.785 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −99.658  2* 4.353 0.440 3(ST) ∞ −0.410 L2  4* 2.392 0.442 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −14.158  5* 1.706 0.068 L3  6* 1.734 1.068 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.751  7* −8.625 0.028 L4  8* 5.485 0.406 1.6503 21.5 f4 = −6.485  9* 2.315 0.973 L5 10* −6.331 0.381 1.6707 19.2 f5 = 108.697 11* −5.966 0.070 L6 12* −18.326 0.297 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 8.492 13* −3.660 0.132 L7 14* −1.930 0.440 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 110.274 15* −2.053 0.267 L8 16* 3.688 0.220 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −5.029 17* 1.523 1.374 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.051 (IM) ∞ f12=−12.527 mm f78=−4.830 mm

R4f=5.485 mm R4r=2.315 mm R8r=1.523 mm D45=0.973 mm T7=0.440 mm T8=0.220 mm TL=7.634 mm

TABLE 16 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.941E−02 −2.426E−02 1.906E−02 −1.331E−02 2 0.000E+00 −2.962E−02 −1.395E−02 1.284E−02 −1.455E−02 4 −6.352E+00   5.185E−03 −1.429E−02 5.771E−02 −8.834E−02 5 −1.316E+00  −1.919E−01  1.181E−01 −6.638E−02   1.947E−02 6 −3.784E+00  −3.983E−02  1.147E−02 3.413E−02 −6.128E−02 7 0.000E+00  4.150E−02 −8.872E−02 1.350E−01 −1.354E−01 8 4.463E−01 −4.840E−02 −3.889E−02 6.725E−02 −5.527E−02 9 −1.067E+01   3.123E−02 −6.847E−03 −5.178E−02   1.222E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.634E−01  5.302E−01 −9.994E−01   1.206E+00 11 0.000E+00 −6.419E−01  1.646E+00 −2.336E+00   2.145E+00 12 0.000E+00 −8.745E−01  1.998E+00 −2.526E+00   2.052E+00 13 1.134E+00  5.210E−02 −1.796E−01 3.519E−01 −3.934E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.565E−01 −7.217E−01 6.840E−01 −4.318E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.881E−01 −4.810E−01 3.634E−01 −1.823E−01 16 1.491E+00 −1.075E−01 −2.724E−03 1.286E−02 −1.898E−03 17 −1.036E+01  −6.510E−02  6.428E−03 6.742E−03 −3.361E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.731E−03 −2.229E−03 4.632E−04 −5.404E−05 2.587E−06 2 1.123E−02 −5.303E−03 1.532E−03 −2.470E−04 1.685E−05 4 7.171E−02 −3.558E−02 1.077E−02 −1.803E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.210E−03 −1.161E−02 5.232E−03 −1.101E−03 9.136E−05 6 5.752E−02 −3.135E−02 9.854E−03 −1.638E−03 1.081E−04 7 9.485E−02 −4.531E−02 1.381E−02 −2.389E−03 1.747E−04 8 4.454E−02 −3.302E−02 1.635E−02 −4.330E−03 4.563E−04 9 −1.232E−01   6.971E−02 −2.287E−02   4.165E−03 −3.163E−04  10 −9.701E−01   5.129E−01 −1.731E−01   3.369E−02 −2.894E−03  11 −1.343E+00   5.650E−01 −1.529E−01   2.391E−02 −1.568E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.325E−01 −1.082E−01   1.654E−02 −1.210E−03  13 2.865E−01 −1.348E−01 3.905E−02 −6.331E−03 4.419E−04 14 1.918E−01 −5.802E−02 1.116E−02 −1.208E−03 5.541E−05 15 6.297E−02 −1.462E−02 2.187E−03 −1.905E−04 7.454E−06 16 −5.802E−04   2.163E−04 −2.769E−05   1.727E−06 −6.652E−08  17 8.128E−04 −1.181E−04 1.029E−05 −5.145E−07 1.192E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.68     -   f2/f3=−5.15     -   f3/f=0.37     -   R4f/R4r=2.37     -   D45/f=0.13     -   f78/f=−0.65     -   T7/T8=2.00     -   f8/f=−0.67     -   R8r/f=0.20     -   TL/f=1.02     -   f6/f=1.14

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 8 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 23 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 24 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 23 and 24, according to the imaging lens of the Example 8, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 9

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 17.

TABLE 17 f = 6.54 mm Fno = 1.9 ω = 28.5° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 4.748 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −15.990  2* 3.208 0.643 3(ST) ∞ −0.410 L2  4* 2.415 0.474 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −18.816  5* 1.819 0.068 L3  6* 1.991 0.734 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.189  7* −11.827 0.029 L4  8* 2.687 0.250 1.6503 21.5 f4 = −100.467  9* 2.486 1.613 L5 10* −8.299 0.542 1.6707 19.2 f5 = 102.088 11* −7.596 0.064 L6 12* −98.439 0.316 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 4.264 13* −2.231 0.083 L7 14* −2.218 0.350 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −4.465 15* −9.088 0.170 L8 16* 4.114 0.547 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −7.397 17* 1.923 1.387 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.308 (IM) ∞ f12=−8.275 mm f78=−2.531 mm

R4f=2.687 mm R4r=2.486 mm R8r=1.923 mm D45=1.613 mm T7=0.350 mm T8=0.547 mm TL=7.553 mm

TABLE 18 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −2.037E−02 −2.308E−02 1.915E−02 −1.332E−02 2 0.000E+00 −2.909E−02 −1.430E−02 1.278E−02 −1.454E−02 4 −7.694E+00   4.441E−03 −1.344E−02 5.777E−02 −8.837E−02 5 −1.312E+00  −1.904E−01  1.181E−01 −6.654E−02   1.943E−02 6 −3.035E+00  −4.300E−02  1.083E−02 3.420E−02 −6.127E−02 7 0.000E+00  4.544E−02 −8.587E−02 1.353E−01 −1.357E−01 8 3.067E−01 −4.844E−02 −4.014E−02 6.650E−02 −5.534E−02 9 −1.135E+01   2.863E−02 −8.565E−03 −5.413E−02   1.219E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.857E−01  5.283E−01 −9.976E−01   1.209E+00 11 0.000E+00 −7.008E−01  1.664E+00 −2.333E+00   2.146E+00 12 0.000E+00 −9.345E−01  2.016E+00 −2.517E+00   2.052E+00 13 5.149E−01  7.853E−02 −1.823E−01 3.496E−01 −3.938E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.858E−01 −7.356E−01 6.818E−01 −4.321E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.466E−01 −4.779E−01 3.631E−01 −1.827E−01 16 1.902E+00 −1.143E−01 −9.719E−04 1.257E−02 −1.856E−03 17 −1.109E+01  −6.182E−02  5.121E−03 6.862E−03 −3.365E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.738E−03 −2.227E−03 4.628E−04 −5.438E−05 2.673E−06 2 1.123E−02 −5.299E−03 1.533E−03 −2.469E−04 1.669E−05 4 7.171E−02 −3.558E−02 1.077E−02 −1.803E−03 1.270E−04 5 8.211E−03 −1.160E−02 5.233E−03 −1.102E−03 9.063E−05 6 5.754E−02 −3.134E−02 9.852E−03 −1.638E−03 1.083E−04 7 9.484E−02 −4.530E−02 1.381E−02 −2.389E−03 1.752E−04 8 4.432E−02 −3.316E−02 1.633E−02 −4.312E−03 4.657E−04 9 −1.229E−01   6.990E−02 −2.296E−02   4.010E−03 −2.775E−04  10 −9.690E−01   5.134E−01 −1.730E−01   3.357E−02 −2.867E−03  11 −1.342E+00   5.652E−01 −1.528E−01   2.388E−02 −1.633E−03  12 −1.141E+00   4.320E−01 −1.083E−01   1.653E−02 −1.169E−03  13 2.866E−01 −1.348E−01 3.908E−02 −6.323E−03 4.393E−04 14 1.918E−01 −5.802E−02 1.115E−02 −1.209E−03 5.677E−05 15 6.289E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.161E−06 16 −5.706E−04   2.152E−04 −2.797E−05   1.763E−06 −5.762E−08  17 8.115E−04 −1.177E−04 1.036E−05 −5.136E−07 1.108E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.27     -   f2/f3=−5.90     -   f3/f=0.49     -   R4f/R4r=1.08     -   D45/f=0.25     -   f78/f=−0.39     -   T7/T8=0.64     -   f8/f=−1.13     -   R8r/f=0.29     -   TL/f=1.16     -   f6/f=0.65     -   f7/f=−0.68

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 9 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 26 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 27 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 26 and 27, according to the imaging lens of the Example 9, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 10

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 19.

TABLE 19 f = 7.81 mm Fno = 3.2 ω = 24.4° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 3.234 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −25.336  2* 2.616 0.321 3(ST) ∞ −0.267 L2  4* 2.147 0.802 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −21.730  5* 1.578 0.066 L3  6* 1.584 1.232 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.615  7* −10.210 0.114 L4  8* 4.114 0.250 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −6.197  9* 2.017 0.432 L5 10* 19.624 0.615 1.6503 21.5 f5 = 99.273 11* 27.845 0.114 L6 12* −22.152 0.358 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.652 13* −37.854 0.362 L7 14* −3.771 0.286 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 97.373 15* −3.674 0.071 L8 16* 5.528 0.296 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −14.805 17* 3.195 0.749 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.743 (IM) ∞ f12=−10.996 mm f78=−16.964 mm

R4f=4.114 mm R4r=2.017 mm R8r=3.195 mm D45=0.432 mm T7=0.286 mm T8=0.296 mm TL=7.932 mm

TABLE 20 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.471E−02 −3.386E−02 2.283E−02 −1.492E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.842E−02 −2.324E−02 1.539E−02 −1.375E−02 4 −4.252E+00   7.223E−03 −4.168E−03 4.977E−02 −8.733E−02 5 −1.134E+00  −1.828E−01  1.221E−01 −6.554E−02   1.844E−02 6 −3.465E+00  −4.581E−02  1.602E−02 3.826E−02 −6.378E−02 7 −1.590E+01   2.320E−02 −9.852E−02 1.386E−01 −1.221E−01 8 −7.794E+00  −7.077E−02 −5.377E−02 7.084E−02 −6.359E−02 9 −1.004E+01   2.897E−02  6.692E−03 −5.321E−02   1.162E−01 10 1.791E+02 −1.986E−01  5.211E−01 −9.617E−01   1.201E+00 11 2.505E+02 −7.288E−01  1.632E+00 −2.342E+00   2.151E+00 12 0.000E+00 −8.849E−01  1.939E+00 −2.526E+00   2.055E+00 13 0.000E+00 −1.402E−03 −1.839E−01 3.532E−01 −3.943E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.826E−01 −7.130E−01 6.694E−01 −4.295E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.236E−01 −4.741E−01 3.625E−01 −1.825E−01 16 4.440E+00 −1.477E−01  6.131E−03 1.256E−02 −1.786E−03 17 −3.586E+01  −1.002E−01  1.222E−02 7.383E−03 −3.669E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 7.242E−03 −1.932E−03 2.510E−04 −4.405E−05 2.339E−05 2 1.060E−02 −5.397E−03 1.809E−03 −1.234E−04 −6.427E−05  4 7.357E−02 −3.578E−02 1.046E−02 −1.612E−03 2.969E−05 5 7.248E−03 −1.306E−02 3.772E−03 −1.877E−03 7.283E−04 6 5.711E−02 −3.178E−02 9.029E−03 −2.713E−03 −2.170E−05  7 9.819E−02 −5.046E−02 7.602E−03 −5.317E−03 1.627E−03 8 5.115E−02 −2.750E−02 6.188E−03 −1.593E−02 7.453E−03 9 −1.306E−01   7.720E−02 −2.687E−02  −6.913E−03 9.157E−03 10 −9.763E−01   5.104E−01 −1.733E−01   3.282E−02 −2.899E−03  11 −1.341E+00   5.647E−01 −1.534E−01   2.374E−02 −1.648E−03  12 −1.134E+00   4.340E−01 −1.088E−01   1.661E−02 −1.309E−03  13 2.865E−01 −1.346E−01 3.921E−02 −6.313E−03 4.145E−04 14 1.928E−01 −5.836E−02 1.102E−02 −1.211E−03 7.183E−05 15 6.297E−02 −1.462E−02 2.189E−03 −1.909E−04 6.470E−06 16 −4.967E−04   2.174E−04 −2.987E−05   9.196E−07 −2.305E−07  17 7.990E−04 −1.125E−04 1.114E−05 −4.750E−07 4.654E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.41     -   f2/f3=−8.31     -   f3/f=0.33     -   R4f/R4r=2.04     -   D45/f=0.06     -   f78/f=−2.17     -   T7/T8=0.97     -   f8/f=−1.90     -   R8r/f=0.41     -   TL/f=1.02     -   f6/f=−12.89

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 10 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 29 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 30 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 29 and 30, according to the imaging lens of the Example 10, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 11

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 21.

TABLE 21 f = 7.56 mm Fno = 3.1 ω = 25.3° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 5.383 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −16.981  2* 3.574 0.310 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.344 0.544 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −24.272  5* 1.828 0.042 L3  6* 1.622 0.896 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 3.133  7* 26.642 0.065 L4  8* 7.244 1.042 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −100.319  9* 6.162 0.795 L5 10* −4.753 0.436 1.6503 21.5 f5 = 101.361 11* −4.594 0.071 L6 12* −3.324 0.284 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −100.263 13* −3.649 0.274 L7 14* −1.855 0.321 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −12.696 15* −2.537 0.032 L8 16* 3.591 0.357 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −18.252 17* 2.534 0.374 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 1.781 (IM) ∞ f12=−9.486 mm f78=−7.075 mm

R4f=7.244 mm R4r=6.162 mm R8r=2.534 mm D45=0.795 mm T7=0.321 mm T8=0.357 mm TL=7.732 mm

TABLE 22 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −4.889E−02 −2.258E−02 2.231E−02 −1.522E−02 2 0.000E+00 −6.446E−02 −2.328E−02 2.897E−02 −1.746E−02 4 −4.531E+00   2.133E−02 −5.376E−03 4.214E−02 −7.809E−02 5 −7.544E−01  −1.630E−01  1.222E−01 −5.905E−02   1.254E−02 6 −3.584E+00  −3.936E−02  3.622E−02 2.463E−02 −6.665E−02 7 0.000E+00 −1.139E−02 −6.430E−03 9.212E−02 −1.166E−01 8 2.888E+00 −4.866E−02 −1.698E−02 1.068E−01 −1.117E−01 9 −3.658E+01  −6.900E−03  8.000E−03 −3.944E−02   1.119E−01 10 0.000E+00 −1.638E−01  4.045E−01 −9.532E−01   1.232E+00 11 0.000E+00 −5.849E−01  1.509E+00 −2.348E+00   2.176E+00 12 0.000E+00 −7.041E−01  1.781E+00 −2.480E+00   2.058E+00 13 0.000E+00 −2.262E−02 −1.572E−01 3.408E−01 −3.948E−01 14 0.000E+00  3.307E−01 −6.455E−01 6.431E−01 −4.253E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.098E−01 −4.647E−01 3.668E−01 −1.826E−01 16 2.909E+00 −1.263E−01 −1.365E−02 1.705E−02 −2.390E−03 17 −2.675E+01  −6.405E−02  4.560E−03 5.492E−03 −3.379E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 9.136E−03 −2.527E−03 −5.016E−04   4.651E−04 −7.697E−05  2 8.819E−03 −3.691E−03 2.152E−03 −1.307E−03 3.199E−04 4 7.630E−02 −3.948E−02 8.942E−03  2.909E−06 −2.775E−04  5 5.201E−03 −1.210E−02 4.309E−03 −2.039E−03 1.104E−03 6 6.103E−02 −3.246E−02 4.989E−03 −3.222E−03 2.438E−03 7 8.877E−02 −7.436E−02 8.370E−03  2.361E−02 −4.649E−03  8 4.362E−02 −2.811E−02 1.555E−02  1.981E−03 8.776E−04 9 −1.470E−01   8.859E−02 −5.903E−03  −2.074E−02 1.047E−02 10 −9.785E−01   4.962E−01 −1.769E−01   4.086E−02 −1.694E−03  11 −1.331E+00   5.637E−01 −1.554E−01   2.311E−02 −1.535E−03  12 −1.126E+00   4.377E−01 −1.105E−01   1.449E−02 −1.294E−03  13 2.866E−01 −1.344E−01 3.957E−02 −6.148E−03 2.355E−04 14 1.962E−01 −5.820E−02 1.054E−02 −1.454E−03 8.586E−05 15 6.271E−02 −1.474E−02 2.169E−03 −1.898E−04 1.069E−05 16 −1.019E−03   1.924E−04 −1.299E−05  −1.614E−06 1.710E−06 17 8.757E−04 −1.186E−04 6.092E−06 −1.141E−06 2.969E−07

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.26     -   f2/f3=−7.75     -   f3/f=0.41     -   R4f/R4r=1.18     -   D45/f=0.11     -   f78/f=−0.94     -   T7/T8=0.90     -   f8/f=−2.42     -   R8r/f=0.34     -   TL/f=1.02     -   f6/f=−13.27     -   f7/f=−1.68

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 11 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 32 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 33 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 32 and 33, according to the imaging lens of the Example 11, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 12

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 23.

TABLE 23 f = 4.65 mm Fno = 1.4 ω = 37.3° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 2.542 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −30.485  2* 2.154 0.816 3(ST) ∞ −0.373 L2  4* 2.190 0.393 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −19.235  5* 1.697 0.124 L3  6* 1.777 0.944 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.888  7* −11.121 0.058 L4  8* 2.674 0.244 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −11.258  9* 1.902 0.680 L5 10* 28.568 0.362 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −4.528 11* 2.656 0.107 L6 12* 2.604 0.527 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 2.664 13* −2.925 0.034 L7 14* −146.441 0.427 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 101.552 15* −46.545 0.422 L8 16* 7.003 0.464 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −4.133 17* 1.641 0.312 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.648 (IM) ∞ f12=−11.660 mm f78=−4.340 mm

R4f=2.674 mm R4r=1.902 mm R8r=1.641 mm D45=0.680 mm T7=0.427 mm T8=0.464 mm TL=6.576 mm

TABLE 24 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.517E−02 −2.474E−02 1.892E−02 −1.348E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.172E−02 −1.769E−02 1.233E−02 −1.435E−02 4 −4.803E+00  −5.701E−03 −1.208E−02 5.819E−02 −8.860E−02 5 −1.134E+00  −1.872E−01  1.188E−01 −6.669E−02   1.933E−02 6 −2.962E+00  −5.008E−02  8.602E−03 3.477E−02 −6.121E−02 7 −1.548E+00   2.566E−02 −8.986E−02 1.360E−01 −1.357E−01 8 2.260E−02 −5.617E−02 −3.928E−02 6.389E−02 −5.539E−02 9 −5.871E+00   2.251E−02 −6.411E−03 −5.361E−02   1.208E−01 10 1.704E+01 −2.179E−01  5.482E−01 −1.003E+00   1.210E+00 11 −2.836E−02  −7.883E−01  1.675E+00 −2.328E+00   2.144E+00 12 1.424E−03 −9.888E−01  2.035E+00 −2.525E+00   2.052E+00 13 5.007E−01  5.483E−02 −1.890E−01 3.529E−01 −3.950E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.382E−01 −7.266E−01 6.762E−01 −4.330E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.449E−01 −4.834E−01 3.634E−01 −1.827E−01 16 3.018E+00 −1.321E−01  3.131E−03 1.271E−02 −1.817E−03 17 −8.892E+00  −6.484E−02  4.351E−03 7.190E−03 −3.406E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.758E−03 −2.210E−03 4.629E−04 −5.627E−05 2.977E−06 2 1.124E−02 −5.317E−03 1.531E−03 −2.452E−04 1.662E−05 4 7.167E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.804E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.186E−03 −1.160E−02 5.234E−03 −1.104E−03 9.089E−05 6 5.757E−02 −3.138E−02 9.837E−03 −1.637E−03 1.110E−04 7 9.491E−02 −4.527E−02 1.381E−02 −2.394E−03 1.774E−04 8 4.442E−02 −3.312E−02 1.636E−02 −4.305E−03 4.557E−04 9 −1.231E−01   6.994E−02 −2.291E−02   4.087E−03 −3.166E−04  10 −9.687E−01   5.131E−01 −1.731E−01   3.361E−02 −2.857E−03  11 −1.343E+00   5.652E−01 −1.528E−01   2.387E−02 −1.629E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.320E−01 −1.084E−01   1.650E−02 −1.162E−03  13 2.862E−01 −1.347E−01 3.917E−02 −6.301E−03 4.251E−04 14 1.922E−01 −5.784E−02 1.115E−02 −1.239E−03 6.081E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.129E−06 16 −5.607E−04   2.121E−04 −2.864E−05   1.829E−06 −4.642E−08  17 8.092E−04 −1.173E−04 1.041E−05 −5.163E−07 1.089E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−2.51     -   f2/f3=−6.66     -   f3/f=0.62     -   R4f/R4r=1.41     -   D45/f=0.15     -   f78/f=−0.93     -   T7/T8=0.92     -   f8/f=−0.89     -   R8r/f=0.35     -   TL/f=1.41     -   f5/f=−0.97     -   f6/f=0.57     -   f5/f6=−1.70

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 12 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 35 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 36 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 35 and 36, according to the imaging lens of the Example 12, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 13

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 25.

TABLE 25 f = 5.01 mm Fno = 1.4 ω = 35.3° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 2.607 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −27.117  2* 2.175 0.873 3(ST) ∞ −0.404 L2  4* 2.210 0.400 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −18.374  5* 1.695 0.135 L3  6* 1.784 1.061 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.929  7* −11.889 0.064 L4  8* 2.627 0.243 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −12.253  9* 1.917 0.766 L5 10* −79.148 0.355 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −4.627 11* 3.133 0.104 L6 12* 2.925 0.509 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 2.768 13* −2.816 0.058 L7 14* −37.626 0.416 1.6707 19.2 f7 = −101.354 15* −84.635 0.371 L8 16* 6.363 0.531 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −4.599 17* 1.722 0.414 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.675 (IM) ∞ f12=−10.777 mm f78=−4.345 mm

R4f=2.627 mm R4r=1.917 mm R8r=1.722 mm D45=0.766 mm T7=0.416 mm T8=0.531 mm TL=6.958 mm

TABLE 26 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.589E−02 −2.446E−02 1.892E−02 −1.349E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.155E−02 −1.785E−02 1.235E−02 −1.435E−02 4 −4.977E+00  −4.901E−03 −1.189E−02 5.820E−02 −8.859E−02 5 −1.135E+00  −1.871E−01  1.189E−01 −6.668E−02   1.933E−02 6 −2.937E+00  −5.047E−02  8.460E−03 3.484E−02 −6.117E−02 7 −7.835E+00   2.658E−02 −8.934E−02 1.361E−01 −1.357E−01 8 7.901E−02 −5.375E−02 −3.971E−02 6.378E−02 −5.540E−02 9 −6.070E+00   2.225E−02 −6.946E−03 −5.391E−02   1.207E−01 10 1.964E+03 −2.214E−01  5.473E−01 −1.002E+00   1.210E+00 11 2.904E−02 −7.894E−01  1.676E+00 −2.328E+00   2.145E+00 12 −7.002E−03  −9.909E−01  2.035E+00 −2.525E+00   2.052E+00 13 5.614E−01  5.525E−02 −1.908E−01 3.526E−01 −3.948E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.407E−01 −7.276E−01 6.767E−01 −4.330E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.417E−01 −4.825E−01 3.635E−01 −1.827E−01 16 3.056E+00 −1.301E−01  2.891E−03 1.268E−02 −1.819E−03 17 −9.493E+00  −6.315E−02  4.153E−03 7.201E−03 −3.404E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.758E−03 −2.210E−03 4.630E−04 −5.626E−05 2.975E−06 2 1.124E−02 −5.318E−03 1.531E−03 −2.451E−04 1.663E−05 4 7.167E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.804E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.189E−03 −1.160E−02 5.234E−03 −1.104E−03 9.088E−05 6 5.758E−02 −3.138E−02 9.837E−03 −1.638E−03 1.110E−04 7 9.492E−02 −4.527E−02 1.381E−02 −2.394E−03 1.768E−04 8 4.441E−02 −3.313E−02 1.635E−02 −4.306E−03 4.555E−04 9 −1.231E−01   6.993E−02 −2.292E−02   4.083E−03 −3.156E−04  10 −9.687E−01   5.131E−01 −1.731E−01   3.361E−02 −2.862E−03  11 −1.343E+00   5.652E−01 −1.528E−01   2.387E−02 −1.628E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.321E−01 −1.084E−01   1.650E−02 −1.163E−03  13 2.862E−01 −1.347E−01 3.917E−02 −6.301E−03 4.253E−04 14 1.921E−01 −5.783E−02 1.115E−02 −1.239E−03 6.054E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.131E−06 16 −5.607E−04   2.121E−04 −2.863E−05   1.829E−06 −4.663E−08  17 8.092E−04 −1.173E−04 1.040E−05 −5.164E−07 1.089E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−2.15     -   f2/f3=−6.27     -   f3/f=0.58     -   R4f/R4r=1.37     -   D45/f=0.15     -   f78/f=−0.87     -   T7/T8=0.78     -   f8/f=−0.92     -   R8r/f=0.34     -   TL/f=1.39     -   f5/f=−0.92     -   f6/f=0.55     -   f5/f6=−1.67     -   f7/f=−20.21

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 13 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 38 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 39 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 38 and 39, according to the imaging lens of the Example 13, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 14

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 27.

TABLE 27 f = 7.52 mm Fno = 3.1 ω = 25.4° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 3.258 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −25.827  2* 2.641 0.383 3(ST) ∞ −0.280 L2  4* 2.188 0.649 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −18.170  5* 1.604 0.058 L3  6* 1.578 1.098 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.682  7* −14.790 0.023 L4  8* 3.184 0.249 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −10.234  9* 2.107 0.969 L5 10* −476.847 0.437 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −10.263 11* 6.772 0.141 L6 12* 17.128 0.549 1.5348 55.7 f6 = −110.109 13* 13.121 0.298 L7 14* 256.976 0.462 1.6707 19.2 f7 = 105.104 15* −97.080 0.421 L8 16* 4.831 0.578 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −44.965 17* 3.855 0.980 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.429 (IM) ∞ f12=−10.261 mm f78=−82.491 mm

R4f=3.184 mm R4r=2.107 mm R8r=3.855 mm D45=0.969 mm T7=0.462 mm T8=0.578 mm TL=7.831 mm

TABLE 28 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.554E−02 −3.240E−02 2.191E−02 −1.483E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.798E−02 −2.308E−02 1.478E−02 −1.372E−02 4 −4.436E+00   8.640E−03 −3.946E−03 5.117E−02 −8.632E−02 5 −1.141E+00  −1.855E−01  1.241E−01 −6.452E−02   1.890E−02 6 −3.488E+00  −4.769E−02  1.368E−02 3.635E−02 −6.306E−02 7 −2.332E+01   2.971E−02 −9.528E−02 1.392E−01 −1.243E−01 8 −2.851E−01  −6.349E−02 −4.618E−02 6.666E−02 −6.587E−02 9 −8.307E+00   2.263E−02 −6.788E−03 −6.690E−02   1.199E−01 10 1.642E+05 −2.109E−01  5.157E−01 −9.686E−01   1.198E+00 11 2.341E+00 −7.386E−01  1.638E+00 −2.339E+00   2.153E+00 12 0.000E+00 −8.995E−01  1.952E+00 −2.521E+00   2.055E+00 13 0.000E+00  9.162E−03 −1.889E−01 3.521E−01 −3.945E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.016E−01 −7.181E−01 6.692E−01 −4.301E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.114E−01 −4.736E−01 3.627E−01 −1.827E−01 16 2.225E+00 −1.535E−01  6.051E−03 1.207E−02 −1.974E−03 17 −5.058E+01  −1.080E−01  9.581E−03 7.858E−03 −3.561E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 7.139E−03 −2.092E−03 2.906E−04  7.663E−05 −3.040E−05  2 1.060E−02 −5.476E−03 1.768E−03 −1.192E−04 −5.791E−05  4 7.314E−02 −3.640E−02 1.046E−02 −1.315E−03 −7.716E−05  5 7.584E−03 −1.286E−02 3.864E−03 −1.863E−03 6.220E−04 6 5.816E−02 −3.150E−02 9.017E−03 −2.927E−03 1.941E−04 7 9.803E−02 −4.844E−02 8.265E−03 −6.865E−03 2.372E−03 8 5.144E−02 −2.513E−02 8.789E−03 −1.579E−02 5.100E−03 9 −1.261E−01   7.127E−02 −2.181E−02  −1.865E−03 2.854E−03 10 −9.762E−01   5.131E−01 −1.705E−01   3.444E−02 −4.652E−03  11 −1.340E+00   5.645E−01 −1.537E−01   2.362E−02 −1.514E−03  12 −1.135E+00   4.330E−01 −1.091E−01   1.652E−02 −1.219E−03  13 2.864E−01 −1.346E−01 3.918E−02 −6.310E−03 4.225E−04 14 1.926E−01 −5.827E−02 1.109E−02 −1.201E−03 5.950E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.892E−04 7.116E−06 16 −5.308E−04   2.160E−04 −2.873E−05   1.901E−06 −7.551E−08  17 7.969E−04 −1.163E−04 1.061E−05 −4.932E−07 6.304E−09

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−1.36     -   f2/f3=−6.77     -   f3/f=0.36     -   R4f/R4r=1.51     -   D45/f=0.13     -   f78/f=−10.96     -   T7/T8=0.80     -   f8/f=−5.98     -   R8r/f=0.51     -   TL/f=1.04     -   f5/f=−1.36     -   f6/f=−14.63

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 14 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 41 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 42 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 41 and 42, according to the imaging lens of the Example 14, aberrations can be properly corrected.

Example 15

The basic lens data is shown below in Table 29.

TABLE 29 f = 4.53 mm Fno = 1.4 ω = 38.1° i r d nd νd [mm] ∞ ∞ L1  1* 2.530 0.300 1.6707 19.2 f1 = −30.918  2* 2.147 0.820 3(ST) ∞ −0.374 L2  4* 2.184 0.398 1.5445 56.4 f2 = −20.096  5* 1.703 0.125 L3  6* 1.775 0.943 1.5445 56.4 f3 = 2.879  7* −10.890  0.042 L4  8* 2.676 0.246 1.6707 19.2 f4 = −11.210  9* 1.901 0.660 L5 10* 21.586  0.354 1.6503 21.5 f5 = −4.597 11* 2.609 0.106 L6 12* 2.564 0.539 1.5348 55.7 f6 = 2.626 13* −2.878  0.026 L7 14* ∞ 0.423 1.6707 19.2 f7 = ∞ 15* ∞ 0.400 L8 16* 6.719 0.482 1.5348 55.7 f8 = −4.183 17* 1.636 0.497 18  ∞ 0.133 1.5168 64.2 19  ∞ 0.416 (IM) ∞ f12=−12.031 mm f78=−4.183 mm

R4f=2.676 mm R4r=1.901 mm R8r=1.636 mm D45=0.660 mm T7=0.423 mm T8=0.482 mm TL=6.494 mm

TABLE 30 Aspheric Surface Data i k A4 A6 A8 A10 1 0.000E+00 −1.517E−02 −2.477E−02 1.892E−02 −1.348E−02 2 0.000E+00 −3.173E−02 −1.767E−02 1.233E−02 −1.435E−02 4 −4.764E+00  −5.705E−03 −1.208E−02 5.818E−02 −8.860E−02 5 −1.137E+00  −1.873E−01  1.188E−01 −6.668E−02   1.933E−02 6 −2.956E+00  −4.995E−02  8.620E−03 3.476E−02 −6.121E−02 7 −9.733E−01   2.561E−02 −8.990E−02 1.359E−01 −1.357E−01 8 2.403E−02 −5.633E−02 −3.922E−02 6.390E−02 −5.539E−02 9 −5.840E+00   2.250E−02 −6.367E−03 −5.356E−02   1.208E−01 10 9.510E+00 −2.177E−01  5.482E−01 −1.003E+00   1.210E+00 11 −1.148E−02  −7.877E−01  1.675E+00 −2.328E+00   2.144E+00 12 2.050E−03 −9.891E−01  2.035E+00 −2.525E+00   2.052E+00 13 4.420E−01  5.564E−02 −1.889E−01 3.529E−01 −3.950E−01 14 0.000E+00  4.387E−01 −7.268E−01 6.762E−01 −4.330E−01 15 0.000E+00  3.433E−01 −4.834E−01 3.634E−01 −1.827E−01 16 2.949E+00 −1.325E−01  3.193E−03 1.270E−02 −1.818E−03 17 −8.545E+00  −6.477E−02  4.378E−03 7.189E−03 −3.407E−03 i A12 A14 A16 A18 A20 1 6.759E−03 −2.210E−03 4.629E−04 −5.627E−05 2.976E−06 2 1.124E−02 −5.317E−03 1.531E−03 −2.452E−04 1.662E−05 4 7.167E−02 −3.557E−02 1.077E−02 −1.804E−03 1.272E−04 5 8.186E−03 −1.160E−02 5.234E−03 −1.104E−03 9.090E−05 6 5.757E−02 −3.138E−02 9.837E−03 −1.637E−03 1.110E−04 7 9.491E−02 −4.527E−02 1.381E−02 −2.394E−03 1.775E−04 8 4.442E−02 −3.312E−02 1.636E−02 −4.304E−03 4.560E−04 9 −1.231E−01   6.994E−02 −2.291E−02   4.087E−03 −3.164E−04  10 −9.687E−01   5.131E−01 −1.731E−01   3.361E−02 −2.856E−03  11 −1.343E+00   5.652E−01 −1.528E−01   2.387E−02 −1.629E−03  12 −1.140E+00   4.320E−01 −1.084E−01   1.650E−02 −1.162E−03  13 2.862E−01 −1.347E−01 3.917E−02 −6.301E−03 4.251E−04 14 1.922E−01 −5.784E−02 1.115E−02 −1.239E−03 6.084E−05 15 6.288E−02 −1.463E−02 2.190E−03 −1.893E−04 7.129E−06 16 −5.608E−04   2.121E−04 −2.864E−05   1.829E−06 −4.635E−08  17 8.092E−04 −1.173E−04 1.041E−05 −5.163E−07 1.089E−08

The values of the respective conditional expressions are as follows:

-   -   f12/f=−2.66     -   f2/f3=−6.98     -   f3/f=0.64     -   R4f/R4r=1.41     -   D45/f=0.15     -   f78/f=−0.92     -   T7/T8=0.88     -   f8/f=−0.92     -   R8r/f=0.36     -   TL/f=1.43     -   f5/f=−1.01     -   f6/f=0.58     -   f5/f6=−1.75

Accordingly, the imaging lens according to the Example 15 satisfies the above-described conditional expressions.

FIG. 44 shows spherical aberration (mm), astigmatism (mm), and distortion (%), respectively. FIG. 45 shows a lateral aberration corresponding to the image height ratio H. As shown in FIGS. 44 and 45, according to the imaging lens of the Example 15, aberrations can be properly corrected.

As described above, the imaging lens according to the present examples has the wide field of view (2ω) of 45° or more. More specifically, the imaging lenses of Examples 1 to 15 have fields of view of 47.6° to 76.2°. According to the imaging lens of the present embodiments, it is possible to take an image over a wider range than that taken by a conventional imaging lens, and needless to say, it is possible to take a comparable image to one taken by the conventional imaging lens.

Therefore, when the imaging lens of the above-described embodiment is applied in an imaging optical system such as cameras built in mobile devices, namely, smartphones, cellular phones and mobile information terminals, digital still cameras, security cameras, onboard cameras, and network cameras, it is possible to attain both high performance and downsizing of the cameras.

The present invention is applicable in an imaging lens that is mounted in a relatively small-sized camera, such as cameras built in mobile devices, namely smartphones, cellular phones and mobile information terminals, digital still cameras, security cameras, onboard cameras, and network cameras.

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-   X: optical axis -   ST: aperture stop -   L1: first lens -   L2: second lens -   L3: third lens -   L4: fourth lens -   L5: fifth lens -   L6: sixth lens -   L7: seventh lens -   L8: eighth lens -   10: filter -   IM: image plane 

1. An imaging lens forming an image of an object on an image sensor and comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens having negative refractive power, wherein said eighth lens has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
 2. The imaging lens according to claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.15<f3/f<0.95 where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f3: a focal length of the third lens.
 3. The imaging lens according to claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.03<D45/f<0.30 where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and D45: a distance along the optical axis between the fourth lens and the fifth lens.
 4. The imaging lens according to claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied: −7.0<f8/f<−0.3 where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and f8: a focal length of the eighth lens.
 5. The imaging lens according to claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.1<R8r/f<0.6 where f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens, and R8r: a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the eighth lens.
 6. The imaging lens according to claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied: 10<vd1<35 35<vd2<85 where vd1: an abbe number at d-ray of the first lens, and vd2: an abbe number at d-ray of the second lens. 